Alicia Garza (born January 4, 1981) is an American civil rights activist and editorial writer from Oakland, California.
She has organized around the issues of health, student services and rights, rights for domestic workers, ending police brutality, anti-racism, and violence against trans and gender non-conforming people of color.
Her editorial writing has been published by The Guardian, The Nation, The Feminist Wire, Rolling Stone, HuffPost and Truthout.
She currently directs Special Projects at the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
Most notably, Garza co-founded the Black Lives Matter movement along with fellow activists Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi.